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Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Anguliphantes  Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996   5 species

Anguliphantes monticola (Kulczyński, 1881)

Description

Male palp with 3-5 robust teeth on end of lamella. Bristle on palpal patella on roundish tubercle. Prosoma yellow-brown, margin dark. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma grey.

Body length male: 1.8-2.2 mm
Body length female: 1.8-2.2 mm
Additional information

subalpine mountain forests, alpine grass heathland and raised bogs, up to 3000 m

Character states from linyphiid key
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Europe, Turkey
Phenology
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Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Austria   (Thaler, 1995) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Latvia   (Cera, 2018) ||| Liechtenstein   (Arnold, 2001) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin & Efimik, 1996a) ||| Serbia   (Deltshev et al., 2003b) ||| Slovakia   (Gajdoš et al., 1999) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Switzerland   (Maurer & Hänggi, 1990) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (İnan & Türkeş, 2025) ||| Ukraine  Removed (Hirna & Zhukovets, 2022) |||
References

Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244 pdf

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 pdf

Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152 pdf

Deltshev C D, Ćurčić B P M, Blagoev GA (2003b) The spiders of Serbia. Inst. Zoology, Fac. Biology, Belgrade & Inst. Zoology, Bulg. Acad. Sci., Sofia. 832 pp.

Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1996a) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Urals. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow, 228 pp. pdf

Gajdoš P, Svatoň J, Sloboda J (1999) Katalóg pavúkov Slovenska. Catalogue of Slovakian spiders. Ústav kr. ekol. SAV, Bratislava, 337 pp.

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin pdf

Hirna A, Zhukovets E (2022) Catalogue of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Lviv oblast (Ukraine). National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Ecology of the Carpathians, Lviv, 311 pp. pdf

İnan Z, Türkeş T (2025) A newly recorded genus for Turkish spider fauna (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Serket 21: 87-89 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12 pdf

Rozwałka R, Baldy K, Szymkowiak P (2010) Anguliphantes tripartitus (Miller et Svaton, 1978) and Anguliphantes monticola (Kulczyński, 1882) (Araneae: Linyphiidae) in Poland. Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego, Acta Biologica 17: 73-84 pdf

Rozwałka R, Stanska M (2008) Check-list of spiders (Araneae) of Poland. 1. December 2008. online at http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/en/species/8-spiders-of-poland.html pdf

Thaler K (1993) Über wenig bekannte Zwergspinnen aus den Alpen - IX (Arachnida: Aranei, Linyphiidae: Erigoninae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 100: 641-654 pdf

Thaler K (1995) Beiträge zur Spinnenfauna von Nordtirol - 5. Linyphiidae 1: Linyphiinae (sensu Wiehle) (Arachnida: Araneida). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 82: 153-190 pdf

Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107 pdf

Wiehle H (1956) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, X. 28: Familie Linyphiidae-Baldachinspinnen. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 44: 1-337 pdf

WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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